An ancient poem admonishing people to reflect on themselves
Ancient meaning [Song Dynasty] Shi Wenjue Since ancient times, the true path of immortality has been tranquil and inactive. Use it to strengthen your spiritual roots, and you may be able to send it to distant places. Emperor Qin and Wu of Han indulged in lust and never tired. Now that he has grown up in China, he wants to dominate the foreign countries again. His nature is tolerant and perplexed, and his behavior is not that of an immortal. The Heavenly Prison is always clear, full of humiliation and bullying. If you don't reflect on your own intentions, you will just hope to get it. What you wish for has not come true, and you will only be ridiculed by future generations.
Moyu'er·Being Yanghua [Song Dynasty] Zhao Shankuo Being caught by Yanghua will lead the spring away, and the journey will be uncertain. The courtyard is covered with thousands of feet of green shade, and the old fragrance is blown away from the branches. You Meng wakes up. The evening scenery and people in the swing courtyard are quiet at first. Soft strips make shadows. The gentle breeze and drizzle in the sky arouse thousands of hatreds. On Yunshan Road, don’t sit on the tall buildings alone. There was a hint of smoke in the Chutian. The delicate oriole flies away with a hundred chirps, but where can I find the fragrant letter? Self-examination. Thinking so close, the brothel should be a strange person. The return date is approaching. It is expected that the magpie will fly to report the news, and he will wait at the door every day.
Written in Feng on the 9th, sent to Zhuo Er, Li Duan, Master Cui, [Tang Dynasty] Wei Yingwu Feeling desolate about the season, I looked towards Linfeng. The green hills are bright and beautiful in autumn, and the high sky is clear and far away. The cold current in Sichuan is getting faster and faster, and frost is beginning to make things worse. The forest leaves are empty, and the morning birds are rising. At this time, the chrysanthemums are blooming, and the turbid mash is beautiful in itself. Although good travel can be entertaining, Yin misses his son. If you don't reflect on yourself in life, your desires will never end. Who can drink together, Tao Ran is wise. Eight Poems about the Spring of the Sixth Year [Tang Dynasty] Yuan Zhen I am the crane in the cage that hurts the birds, and Lord Shen Jian is the dragon under the spring. There is still a lonely pillow in the heavy paper, and the tailor's spring shirt has not returned to the old one. I found three or four pages of old books, arranged in rows of high, low, wide, narrow and thick. He said that he was looking for high things, but he thought that the mountains were deep and the roads were long. The sound of Gongwu crossing the river is silent, and spring has returned to autumn. Today, the dust is blowing through the idle window, and the remaining strings are still bursting with tinsel and konghou. The maids and servants are showing you the rest of the food, and the charming and innocent girls are walking around the bed. The fragrant glue of the jade comb is dissolved, and the tortoiseshell kite is blown by the wind all day long. I spend the whole day drinking with my guests to relieve my worries, and sometimes I get drunk when I am in a good mood. It's strange that when I wake up, I cry next to others, and when I'm drunk, I always ask you by mistake. I follow Chu Zebo in the middle of the road, and you are in the mud of Xianyang Spring. Pepsi has no intention of paying for cold food, and the child is crying in front of the tent. Children are running around wildly, and the hydrangeas are all in front of the hall. As soon as the sick body reaches the curtain, he still sleeps facing the steps with his back to the sun. Less than Pan Yue, his head turned white first, and he shed many tears after learning from Zhuang Zhou. To stop being sad, you need to reflect on yourself. There are storms before and after the current.
Bie Fangyan [Song Dynasty] Hu Ze lived in Fengding Temple and spent the summer without realizing it. The old man in the mountain makes frequent appointments, and the monk in the forest goes out to meditate every time. Think about the past with humility, sit down at a banquet and rest in peace. The photo niche is dark and the rhyme of the chime is passed all night long. The banquet is lonely, and the sentences are extremely mysterious. Picking up bacteria outside the cold clouds, in front of green bamboos making tea. The distant shade is near the mountain trees, and the sound of the falling rock spring is clear. There are no visitors on the secluded road, and there are cicadas everywhere in late autumn. The wind in the pines creates waves in the well, and the rain in the stream grows moss. Self-reflection floats in this world, and it is difficult to live forever. I have been traveling all over the world, but I want to leave and linger again. Tomorrow, I will be alone and sad on the east-west road.
Famous sayings that encourage people to reflect on themselves
Learn to give in and seek benefits. Increase your enjoyment and decrease your blessings.
The old tree is afraid of the sky, and the old man is afraid of the pine. Be careful about the emptiness and the pine, and be strict to the end. ——Hua Luogeng
Everyone knows that shoes squeeze the feet. ——Latin America
People cannot live without criticism and self-criticism. Such a person cannot make progress.
People who are afraid of you in front of you will definitely hate you behind your back. ——Britain
A house with many doors creates trouble, and a house with too many words creates disaster.
Facial features ***, not a real enjoyment. Inner peace is the place to start.
He who restrains himself after victory has a double victory. ——Bacon
A safe mind is not as good as a safe body, and a wide house is not as good as a wide heart.
If you don’t evaluate yourself, you won’t evaluate others. ——Germany
Peace is luck, contentment is blessing, a pure heart is salary, and few desires are longevity.
Seeing what is wrong with oneself is the door to all goodness. Seeing others as they are not is the root of all evil.
It is a good thing to help people in times of crisis. If you can refrain from boasting, you will be very virtuous!
When encountering good times, stay calm; when encountering adversity, stay calm.
If you don’t seek in vain, your mind will be at peace; if you don’t do anything in vain, your body will be in peace.
It is better to be poor and happy than to be rich and worry.
A lie is like a blooming flower, beautiful in appearance but short in life.
The more incompetent a person is, the more he likes to find fault with others. ——Ireland
Learning from others and understanding the extraordinary is a wonderful way to enable people to reflect. ——Lu Xun
Choose good people to make friends with, choose good books to read, choose good words to listen to, and choose good deeds to follow.
Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings, so don’t worry about them.
Right and wrong exist every day, and if you don’t listen, there will be nothing.
If you don’t do anything frowning in your life, there should be no gnashing of teeth in the world.
Being able to give love is blessing, being able to eliminate worries is wisdom.
Self-knowledge is the most rare knowledge. ——Spain
Complacency, arrogance and gullibility are the three hidden dangers in life. ——Balzac
Being jealous of others and hating dissidents is tantamount to giving your life to others.
Changing yourself is saving yourself, influencing others is saving others.
Repentance for a shameful act saves a life.
——Democritus
If people are good, although blessings have not come, disasters have been far away; if people have been evil, although disasters have not come, blessings have been far away.
A narrow mind will lead to many troubles, but a broad mind will lead to abundant wisdom.
Life is unfair, get used to it.
Accumulating virtue is an inheritance, which is better than a beautiful house and good land.
Always discover your own mistakes, admit them boldly and forthrightly, and make changes quickly and bravely.
There are two things in the world that cannot wait: one is filial piety. Second, do good deeds.
It is better to retreat first when you are deep in thoughts, and then you can rest when you are very proud.
Those who are kind-hearted will live longer. Those who are engraved in their hearts will live longer.
Don’t do any evil, and do all the good. Don’t do good deeds because they are small, and don’t do evil because they are small.
Self-respect, self-control, and self-restraint are the three things that can lead to the lofty realm of life. ——Tennyson
If you cannot command yourself, you cannot command others.
It is a great pleasure to hide nothing in your life.
Evil, fearing that others will know it, is a great evil. "Goodness" is something that people want to know, but it is not true goodness.
I can clearly count the stars in the sky, but I can’t see the soot on my face. ——Malaysia
I do dissect others from time to time, but more often than not I dissect myself more ruthlessly. ——Lu Xun
Regulate one's body through careful conduct, but cannot take away others through careful conduct. ——Wei Yuan
You know your own appetite. ——Soviet Union
A wise man plans with the times, but a fool moves against the times.
The power cannot be exhausted, the blessings cannot be enjoyed, the advantages cannot be exploited, and the wisdom cannot be exhausted.
Only among people can you know yourself. ——Germany
If you accomplish nothing, it's not your parents' fault, so don't just complain about your mistakes, learn from them.
Hate others, but it is yourself who suffers.
Everyone makes mistakes, but only fools will not correct their mistakes. ——Cicero
To understand yourself, it is best to ask others.
If you want me to write my own history, I will write about my mistakes.
Desire is a sign of poverty. Things are always enough, the mind is always happy, and people have no expectations and high standards.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself. ——Teles
A person's happiness is not because he has more, but because he cares less.
If your thoughts are correct, the stars of fortune will come; if your thoughts are incorrect, the stars of disaster will shine.
A person’s mind will be narrow if he has many desires, and broad if he has few desires.
Whether people hate you or love you, check your behavior. ——Voynich
If a gentleman is knowledgeable and examines himself three times every day, then he will know clearly and act without fault. ——Xunzi
Don’t laugh at others’ hunched backs, straighten your own back. ——Soviet Union
Those who often blame themselves can often be forgiven by others.
There is no need to ask for merit when doing things, as long as there are no faults, it is merit. There is no need to be virtuous in order to be a human being. It is virtue to have no resentment.
There is fun in the dream, but there is nothingness after sleep.
To be angry is to punish yourself for the faults of others. To forgive others is to be kind to yourself.
Only those who respect themselves are more courageous to shrink themselves.
Being unmasked is a kind of failure, and being unmasked yourself is a kind of victory. ——Hugo
If one does not seek blessings, there will be no misfortunes. If a person does not seek profit, he will do no harm.
The ability to penetrate stone with drops of water is not due to great strength, but due to deep skill.
It is never too late to correct your mistakes. ——Shakespeare
Those who sing praises to themselves have only one audience. ——Japan
A big belly can be tolerated, and many troubles and obstacles can be eliminated. A smile can be seen, and boundless joy can be formed.
If a person is not infected by bad habits, happiness is close.
The most evil thing in life is to talk about others' faults; the most stupid thing in life is to listen to one's own faults.
Self-examination is the path to virtue and God. ——Watts
The reason why people are ordinary is that they cannot transcend themselves.
If you rectify yourself, you can rectify things; if you govern yourself, you can govern others. ——Yue Fei
The most difficult thing is to know yourself. ——Greece
Don’t be jealous of others. If you are jealous of others, you will end up short. Don't protect yourself from shortcomings. If you protect yourself from shortcomings, you will not grow up in the end.